Cheri by Jo Ann Beard

Cheri by Jo Ann Beard

This heart wrenching novella honours all the wonders of life through the lens of one woman's journey towards death

Cheri is richly packedThe details are laid before the reader with a simplicity that feels like grace. Beard's vocabulary is luminous ... Beard combines the lapidary chill of Joan Didion with the sense of a proper, lived humanity that you get from a writer like Grace Paley or Sigrid Nunez. She is good company. She connects. You should read her and not look away -- Anne Enright * Guardian *
Beard's writing is majestic and ultimately offers some hope, because the book is essentially less about death and more about what it is to be alive ... In the hands of a maestro, less can be so much more * Independent *
Beard's wry voice and her clear-eyed compassion make her the best sort of company -- Jonathan Franzen * Guardian *
Cheri is a masterpiece -- John Self * The Times *
As controlled and convincing as art * Times Literary Supplement *
Profoundly sad, poignant, and filled with the flabbergasting abundance of life ... an extraordinary achievement -- Mary Gaitskill
Extraordinary and powerful -- Mia Levitin * Irish Times *
A gem of a book ... Beard communicates, quietly and almost plainly, a breathless desperation for life and all its terrible beauty -- Lizzy Stewart * Guardian *
I was shocked by my emotional response to it. It's beautiful & sad & dignified -- Amy Key, author of Arrangements in Blue
Beard honours the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life, and for life's inescapable cruelites and woes she offers the wisdom of a sage -- Sigrid Nuñez
Jo Ann Beard is a formidable talent. Her writing is darkly moving, full of audacious narrative surprises, and, at times, unexpectedly - almost unbearably - suspenseful -- Geoff Dyer
A rare talent, and a magnificent writer ... She is extraordinary -- Francesca Segal, author of Mother Ship
Taut and troubling ... rendered with exquisite restraint and precision ... as powerful as the close of The Death of Ivan Ilyich * Literary Review *
A tour de force ... feels like a bravura attempt to rescue Cheri from the loneliness of her death * London Review of Books *

Jo Ann Beard is the author the collections Festival Days and The Boys of My Youth, and the novel In Zanesville. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and others, and has received a Whiting Foundation Award, fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2022 Award in Literature and in 2024 was announced as a Royal Society of Literature International Writer. She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

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ISBN 13	9781800817852
ISBN 10	1800817851
Title	Cheri
Author	Jo Ann Beard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2023-08-17
Number of pages	96
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.